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How to convince my parents to let me buy a 17" MacBook Pro

Amazing Iceman said:
I know the feeling. Been there, done that.
It's always better to get them to agree with you, before you proceed to purchase your MBP. If later, for some reason you have to endure any hardship, they will be willing to help you.

You should make them convince themselves that you need your MBP, instead of just nagging about it. It may seem hard to do, but it's possible, and works for the best.
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Well, I didn't talked about them yet. I've dropped a few rimes that I wanted a MacBook pro, but I never told them how much it would cost. I've subtely told them when I was looking in some pc folders from 1200-1800€ that those were bad leptons 'cause somthing was always wrong etc.

Did you looked at my 6 point list some posts ago?
If I told them that, and let them show the calculations with an other pc laptop, do you think they will let me buy one? 'cause it looks impossible to me…
 
Independence

My advise to you has nothing to do with what kind of laptop you own. My advise to you is to decide whether or not you want to be an independent person or not. If it is important to you to own a 17" MacBook laptop for school, then get one and deal with the consequences. When I was 18, I had my own job, I had my own apartment, I got some loans for tuition and paid the difference and it was hard. School took me twice as long as some people. I didn't get straight A's because I was busy working my ass off too. And now, I have about $20,000 of debt for school. But I learned a lot about responsibility and I had the pleasure of accomplishment when all was said and done.

I'd say, either assert your independence and be willing to do all of this yourself, or obey your parents wishes. If they are boarding you and paying your tuition while you go to school, then respect their wishes and by a cheap PC. There really isn't anything special about Comp Sci that you need a 17" MBP for anyways. If it were graphics design, that would be a different story. But your IDE will run just fine on a Dell. You just won't look as cool sitting around the Union and/or coffee house while you're using it.






Ulf1103 said:
Hy I'm 18 and I'm going to need a laptop for college.
I'm going to studie computer science at the University.
(Not sure if it's called that way in English, but basically I'm gonna be programming a lot (it also includes heavy generating of data and processing it)

How can I convince my parents to let me buy a MacBook pro?

Specs:
Because I want to have a big screen I wanted to buy the 17" MacBook pro.
It seems robe the best laptop that there is.

I don't really need the best of everything (if you think there's a better combined solution for the study I'm gonna do, please tell) so I'm oke with the standart CPU and RAM, but I want to have the ssd (128 GB, and 1TB external drive for other stuff).
No software needed, only warranty.


I'm from Belgium and I save up to 3000€ to spent (I've 6000€ total, but I'm only gonna spent 50%).

My brother only spent 1000€ for his laptop (now it's almost 3 years old and getting slower, battery for hard work is 30 min, was 1,5h).


Can someone say some good reasons to tell my parents why buying a MacBook pro would be better then a pc laptop?
Considering the price tag?

Please help me, 'cause I don't know how to convince them.
You know, I nagged 2 months befor they let me buy my iPhone 3GS 32GB of my own money (sim-lock free) €675.
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A fantastic thread

This thread is great as a study in human relations in the context of buying a high end computer
 
Dweez said:
Nice thread bump. I wonder if the OP got his MBP or not.
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Yes, having read it this evening from start to where it currently ends, this is exactly the question that crossed my mind.

You know, sometimes, people, forum members, start fascinating threads, threads which allow for the exploration of the big (and small) questions of life, and then, they vanish into the ether. leaving with the same sensation you had as a kid when you missed the last episode of a thrilling series, and never got to find out what happened and how it all ended.

Well, if the OP is around, perhaps he can put us out of our misery, sometime....
 
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